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Basics of Phonics
 Phonics is the study of sound or a way of learning words by linking sounds (phonemes).  With good knowledge of the phonics, one can fast build vocabulary with ease. Our APP -Phonics Teacher is trying to facilitate users in this study.


 Vowels:
In English, or even most of the laugauages around the world, word pronuciation is made up of true sound (vowels) and assisting sounds(consanants). In English , there are 5 vowel letters (A,E,I,O,U, sometimes, Y being considered as the 6th ). There are more than 5 vowel sounds in English Phonics. Some vowel sound is simple e.g. [i] in "kit", [e] in "bed"; some joined together ( some called digath, diphthongs) such as [ɑɪ] in "Bike", [eɪ] in "cake"/, etc.


Here is the list of vowel sounds and corresponding letter or letter groups (keep updating...):



Consonants:


The rest of the sounds in the pronunciation is called consonant sounds, which is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract. Most of the sounds not involved with vibration of vocal cord, such as [b] [p] [t]. etc.

Here are the list of the consanant sounds and their letters



As we can read from above, same letter or group can give different phonemes. Some are more often pronounced than others, such letter "a" are mostly spelled as  /eɪ/, /æ/, /ɒ/ and /ɑː/, but it also gives sound of /ɔː/ in walk and /i/ in manager. Catching the rare phonemes are the key to accurate spelling, pronunciation and enlarging vocabulary with ease. By explore our Phonics Teacher-- phonics list, user can easily see the comprehensive listing of the letter(s) phonemes and learn words in groups rather than isolated ones. More details about how to use the APP can be found here. 


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